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sixteen tons, whaddya get?

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Originally posted by Frank Burns
sixteen tons, whaddya get?
another day older and deeper in debt

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Originally posted by pawnhandler
another day older and deeper in debt
I ain't picking up nothing then!

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Originally posted by Frank Burns
I ain't picking up nothing then!
Do you know the story behind that song?

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Originally posted by sonhouse
Do you know the story behind that song?
No, and it's killing me! I think I used to know. Pennsylvanian coal mining or something. I'm not going to google it, but wait for an answer.

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Sonh and Phlab,

No I don't know the story. Let's hear it. Could be interesting. I was just goofing off of course.

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Originally posted by Frank Burns
sixteen tons, whaddya get?
Tennessee Ernie

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Originally posted by HandyAndy
Tennessee Ernie
But the story?

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Originally posted by Frank Burns
But the story?
Song was written in 1947 by country singer/guitarist Merle Travis, recorded by Tennessee Ernie Ford in the 50s and hit the top of the charts just before Elvis Presley and the Beatles arrived in town. Obviously it's about the joys of coal mining.